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# 259065 07-Dec-2013 gjb

- Copy stable/10 (r259064) to releng/10.0 as part of the
10.0-RELEASE cycle.
- Update __FreeBSD_version [1]
- Set branch name to -RC1

[1] 10.0-CURRENT __FreeBSD_version value ended at '55', so
start releng/10.0 at '100' so the branch is started with
a value ending in zero.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

# 256281 10-Oct-2013 gjb

Copy head (r256279) to stable/10 as part of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 240178 06-Sep-2012 jilles

libc/amd64: Do not export .cerror.

For some reason, libc exports the symbol .cerror (HIDENAME(cerror)), albeit
in the FBSDprivate_1.0 version. It looks like there is no reason for this
since it is not used from other libraries. Given that it cannot be accessed
from C and its strange calling convention, it is rather unlikely that other
things rely on it. Perhaps it is from a time when symbols could not be
hidden.

Most of the amd64 assembler code jumps to .cerror using the GOT. It can jump
to it directly now, as in non-PIC mode.

There are also some minor size optimizations to instructions but they yield
virtually no benefit in the size of libc.so.7 due to padding.

Reviewed by: kib


# 184547 02-Nov-2008 peter

We've been lax about matching END() macros in asm code for some time. This
is used to set the ELF size attribute for functions. It isn't normally
critical but some things can make use of it (gdb for stack traces).
Valgrind needs it so I'm adding it in. The problem is present on all
branches and on both i386 and amd64.


# 171217 04-Jul-2007 peter

Adjust the syscall stub macros to be consistent in their meaning. In
particular:
SYSCALL() makes a syscall, with errno handling, and continues execution
directly after the macro in the non-error case.
RSYSCALL() is just like SYSCALL(), but returns after success.
Both SYSCALL(name) and RSYSCALL(name) export "__sys_name" as a strong
symbol, with "_name" and "name" as weak aliases.
PSEUDO() is just like RSYSCALL(), but skipping the "name" weak alias. It
still does "__sys_name" and "_name".

Change i386 to add errno handling to PSEUDO. The same for amd64 and
sparc64, with appear to have copied the behavior.
ia64 was correct (as was alpha). Just remove some apparently unused
variants of the macros. (untested!)
I believe powerpc is correct.
Fix arm to not export "name" from the PSEUDO case. Remove apparently
extra unused variants. (untested!)

The errno problem manifested on i386/amd64/sparc64 by having "PSEUDO"
classified syscalls return without setting errno. eg: "addr = mmap()"
could return with "addr" = 22 instead of setting errno to 22 and
returning -1.

Approved by: re (kensmith)


# 165903 08-Jan-2007 imp

Per Regents of the University of Calfornia letter, remove advertising
clause.

# If I've done so improperly on a file, please let me know.


# 126107 22-Feb-2004 peter

Change the syscall stub branch orders so that the static branch prediction
will assume that syscalls will succeed rather than fail.


# 115279 24-May-2003 peter

Repair PIC mode. It seems I was a bit too excited about the
implications of native PC relative addressing.


# 114306 30-Apr-2003 peter

Update for AMD64-style syscalls. Repocopied from i386/SYS.h.
Note that the syscall instruction clobbers %rcx, which is inconvenient
because it is the fourth syscall argument, so we use %r10 (another scratch
register) for the 4th syscall arg instead (I picked %r10 to be the same as
NetBSD). int 0x80 is still possible though, and it uses %rcx as usual.
Note that the syscall style syscall does *NOT* preserve all the registers,
unlike int 0x80. We do not preserve the scratch registers except for
%rdi and %rsi. int 0x80 does preserve everything but the return values.


# 103436 16-Sep-2002 peter

Initiate deorbit burn for the i386-only a.out related support. Moves are
under way to move the remnants of the a.out toolchain to ports. As the
comment in src/Makefile said, this stuff is deprecated and one should not
expect this to remain beyond 4.0-REL. It has already lasted WAY beyond
that.

Notable exceptions:
gcc - I have not touched the a.out generation stuff there.
ldd/ldconfig - still have some code to interface with a.out rtld.
old as/ld/etc - I have not removed these yet, pending their move to ports.
some includes - necessary for ldd/ldconfig for now.

Tested on: i386 (extensively), alpha


# 92991 22-Mar-2002 obrien

Fix the style of the SCM ID's.
I believe have made all of libc .h's as consistent as possible.


# 87006 27-Nov-2001 jhb

Use 'mov' instead of 'lea' for setting the syscall number in %eax as that
is clearer about what we are actually doing.

Requested by: bde


# 85437 24-Oct-2001 peter

De-orbit DEFS.h - the other arches do not use it, and it got replaced
with <machine/asm.h>.

Reviewed by: bde


# 71770 29-Jan-2001 deischen

Clean up syscall generation in libc by removing HIDDEN_SYSCALLS
and treating (almost) all system calls the same way:

__sys_foo - actual syscall
foo, _foo - weak definitions to __sys_foo

Change PSEUDO syscalls (currently only _exit and _getlogin) to
be __sys_foo (T) and _foo (W).

Add $FreeBSD$ to a few files to satisfy commitprep.

Suggested by: bde


# 71579 24-Jan-2001 deischen

Remove _THREAD_SAFE and make libc thread-safe by default by
adding (weak definitions to) stubs for some of the pthread
functions. If the threads library is linked in, the real
pthread functions will pulled in.

Use the following convention for system calls wrapped by the
threads library:
__sys_foo - actual system call
_foo - weak definition to __sys_foo
foo - weak definition to __sys_foo

Change all libc uses of system calls wrapped by the threads
library from foo to _foo. In order to define the prototypes
for _foo(), we introduce namespace.h and un-namespace.h
(suggested by bde). All files that need to reference these
system calls, should include namespace.h before any standard
includes, then include un-namespace.h after the standard
includes and before any local includes. <db.h> is an exception
and shouldn't be included in between namespace.h and
un-namespace.h namespace.h will define foo to _foo, and
un-namespace.h will undefine foo.

Try to eliminate some of the recursive calls to MT-safe
functions in libc/stdio in preparation for adding a mutex
to FILE. We have recursive mutexes, but would like to avoid
using them if possible.

Remove uneeded includes of <errno.h> from a few files.

Add $FreeBSD$ to a few files in order to pass commitprep.

Approved by: -arch


# 58126 16-Mar-2000 jasone

Take care to avoid having "strong" and "weak" symbols of the same name in
libc_r.


# 56809 29-Jan-2000 jasone

Undo the ill-conceived breakage of the previous commit and really fix:

For libc_r renamed syscalls, correct symbol naming from
_thread_sys_foo() <-- _foo() to _thread_sys_foo() <-- _foo() <-- foo(). This
is necessary for system calls which libc_r doesn't define foo().

Some weak symbols such as poll() are defined twice. From what I understand,
depending on one weak symbol or the other to be used is a bad idea. All
such weak symbols defined in the libc_r-specific code should therefore be
made strong (non-weak?).

Simplify PSEUDO() to not define any weak symbols, since they aren't ever
needed.

alpha/SYS.h:

Correct reversed usage of WEAK_ALIAS(), which has reversed arguments from
__weak_reference(). Also, fix reversal of symbols, so that syscall foo()
is a weak alias for _foo().

Add WEAK_ALIAS() call to PRSYSCALL(), which unlike the i386 version of
PRSYSCALL(), is not defined in terms of PSYSCALL().

Make PSEUDO() equivalent to the i386 version.


# 56773 28-Jan-2000 jasone

For syscalls that are renamed to _thread_sys_foo, create a weak alias
called _foo, not _thread_sys_foo.


# 56698 27-Jan-2000 jasone

Simplify sytem call renaming. Instead of _foo() <-- _libc_foo <-- foo(),
just use _foo() <-- foo(). In the case of a libpthread that doesn't do
call conversion (such as linuxthreads and our upcoming libpthread), this
is adequate. In the case of libc_r, we still need three names, which are
now _thread_sys_foo() <-- _foo() <-- foo().

Convert all internal libc usage of: aio_suspend(), close(), fsync(), msync(),
nanosleep(), open(), fcntl(), read(), and write() to _foo() instead of foo().

Remove all internal libc usage of: creat(), pause(), sleep(), system(),
tcdrain(), wait(), and waitpid().

Make thread cancellation fully POSIX-compliant.

Suggested by: deischen


# 55837 12-Jan-2000 jasone

Add three-tier symbol naming in support of POSIX thread cancellation
points. For library functions, the pattern is __sleep() <--
_libc_sleep() <-- sleep(). The arrows represent weak aliases. For
system calls, the pattern is _read() <-- _libc_read() <-- read().


# 50476 27-Aug-1999 peter

$Id$ -> $FreeBSD$


# 35761 05-May-1998 jb

Build the syscalls (in libc, not libc_r) with weak symbols so that
libpthread can override them as required.


# 25029 19-Apr-1997 bde

Fixed long lines.

Removed unused macros CALL() and ASMSTR.

Reviewed by: jdp


# 22993 22-Feb-1997 peter

Revert $FreeBSD$ to $Id$


# 22715 14-Feb-1997 bde

Moved definitions of PIC macros from SYS.h to DEFS.h so that SYS.h
doesn't need to be included in files that have nothing to do with
syscalls.

Added missing `.text' to START_ENTRY so that ENTRY() works when
invoked in the data section.


# 21673 14-Jan-1997 jkh

Make the long-awaited change from $Id$ to $FreeBSD$

This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.

Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.


# 19294 31-Oct-1996 dyson

Correct a "spelling" error in a comment.


# 17769 22-Aug-1996 julian

Submitted by: john birell (jb@cimlogic.com.au)
fixups for makefiles
and for Thread-safe sycalls


# 17706 20-Aug-1996 julian

Submitted by: John Birrell <cimaxp1!jb@werple.net.au>

Here are the diffs for libc_r to get it one step closer to P1003.1c
These make most of the thread/mutex/condvar structures opaque to the
user. There are three functions which have been renamed with _np
suffixes because they are extensions to P1003.1c (I did them for JAVA,
which needs to suspend/resume threads and also start threads suspended).

I've created a new header (pthread_np.h) for the non-POSIX stuff.

The egrep tags stuff in /usr/src/lib/libc_r/Makefile that I uncommented
doesn't work. I think its best to delete it. I don't think libc_r needs
tags anyway, 'cause most of the source is in libc which does have tags.

also:

Here's the first batch of man pages for the thread functions.
The diff to /usr/src/lib/libc_r/Makefile removes some stuff that was
inherited from /usr/src/lib/libc/Makefile that should only be done with
libc.

also:

I should have sent this diff with the pthread(3) man page.
It allows people to type

make -DWANT_LIBC_R world

to get libc_r built with the rest of the world. I put this in the
pthread(3) man page. The default is still not to build libc_r.


also:
The diff attached adds a pthread(3) man page to /usr/src/share/man/man3.
The idea is that without libc_r installed, this man page will give people
enough info to know that they have to build libc_r.


# 15634 05-May-1996 peter

Add support to enable libc to be compiled in ELF format. (#ifdef __ELF__)
In a nutshell, this macroizes the local/global symbol scoping rules
that are different in a.out and ELF. It also makes the i386 assembler
stubs conform to i386 PIC calling conventions - the a.out ld.so didn't
object, but the ELF one needs it as it implements PIC jumps via PLT's as
well as calls. The a.out rtld only worked because it was accidently
snooping the grandparent calling function's return address off the stack..

This also affects the libc_r code a little, because of cpp macro nesting.


# 13545 21-Jan-1996 julian

Reviewed by: julian and (hsu?)
Submitted by: John Birrel(L?)

changes for threadsafe operations


# 1849 04-Aug-1994 wollman

First crack at making libc work with the new make macros. It compiles on
my machine, and a simple static (genassym) and shared (sysctl) executable
both work. Still to be done: RPCand YP merge.


# 1573 27-May-1994 rgrimes

BSD 4.4 Lite Lib Sources